)<,)<, ci.alexandria.va.us November 2003 A Newsletter for Alexandria Residents City Council Tackles a Variety of Issues

The Alexandria City Council will Council agendas are posted on the tackle a full agenda this fall with issues City web site, ci.alexandria.va.us, and can ranging from transportation and planning be e-mailed upon request with a to housing and the environment. subscription to eNews (see page 4). ,QVLGH Legislative meetings of the City Council are held the second and fourth Tuesdays For information about the City PTO Construction Progress ...... 2 of each month at 7 pm in the Council Council, City Council meetings or Chambers, second floor of City Hall, 301 agendas, contact City Clerk Jackie Woodrow Bridge Update ...... 3 King St. Public hearings are generally Henderson, 703.838.4550 or held on the Saturday following the second jackie.henderson@ ci.alexandria.va.us. eNews You Can Use ...... 4 Tuesday of each month at 9:30 am in the Council Chambers. Health Dept. Relocation ...... 5

Plans for T.C. Williams ...... 6

Holiday Happenings ...... 7

Calendar of Events ...... 8

Alexandria Celebrates America Recycles Day

The City of Alexandria will celebrate America Recycles Day on Nov. 15 with the theme "Make Every Day America Recycles Day." The City is teaming up with libraries to host a recycled art contest, called "Rethink Recycling." Elementary school students will be challenged to design art sculptures from recycled materials, and display their artwork for judging at Burke Library on Nov. 15. Breakfast and prizes will be available. For more information, contact the Office of Recycling at 703.751.5872 or check out the web site at City Council members are elected at large for three-year terms. The current City Council www.alexrecycles.org. terms began July 1 of this year. Pictured from left to right, back row are: Councilmembers Paul Smedberg, Ludwig Gaines, Joyce Woodson, Andrew Macdonald and Rob Krupicka. Front row: Mayor Bill Euille and Vice Mayor Redella "Del" Pepper. Contact information for the Alexandria Celebrates Adoptions Mayor and members of the City Council are on the back page of this newsletter.

The Alexandria Division of Social Services, in collaboration with the Alexandria City of Alexandria Launches Resident Newsletter Models Court and the Alexandria Circuit Court, We hope you enjoy FYI Alexandria, a new quarterly newsletter for residents of the will host Adoption Saturday on Nov. 22. City of Alexandria. The goal of this publication is to provide Alexandrians with up-to-date Adoption Saturday celebrates the finalization information about City government services, programs and activities, and about important of Alexandria's most recent adoptions. This special event will honor those families who community issues being considered by the City Council and other City decision making have opened their homes and their hearts to a bodies. Each issue will include updates about ongoing projects and a three-month child in Alexandria's foster care system. For calendar of major, City-wide events. Comments and suggestions are welcome. See contact more information call 703.838.0766. information on page 2. )<, $/(;$1'5,$ Vol. 1, Issue No. 1

38%/,&)2580 Current Issues Up For Discussion And Decision First PTO Buildings to Open This Winter Alexandria Visitor Center Subject of Study After years of planning and construction, the first buildings After the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, the tourism market in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) headquarters here and elsewhere fell, causing a decline in revenue for complex, located off Duke Street in the Carlyle area of businesses, attraction sites and the City. In 2002, the City of Alexandria, will open later this year. The 15-acre site will include Alexandria retained a team of consultants led by Parter more than two million square feet of office and special use space International, Inc., experts in tourism and visitor centers, to with five office buildings, two townhouse-style office buildings, conduct a study to determine whether a new visitor center and two parking garages. would strengthen the City's tourism market and, if so, where it should be located. PTO employees are scheduled to begin moving in to the first two buildings in early December. Employees will move in at The study reported that the current visitor center, located in an expected rate of 200 per week through March. This first the Ramsay House, in the 200 block of King Street, is too small phase includes approximately 2,600 employees. No additional and too difficult to access to be valuable to the City as a visitor buildings are expected to be occupied until mid-summer 2004. center, and that a new visitor center is critical to maintaining a When the Alexandria PTO complex is fully occupied in mid-2005, competitive edge in the tourist market. The consultants it will house approximately 7,100 employees. concluded that any visitor center must be located in Old Town, which is where visitors come naturally, and should total 3,500 Approximately 50 percent of PTO employees will use transit square feet of space and include an information and orientation to get to work, and the majority of them will use the King Street area. A facility of this size could serve about 1,000 visitors a Metro Station. To provide a safe way for employees to cross day, accomodating about 75 persons at any single time. Duke Street without disrupting traffic, a pedestrian concourse under Duke Street is planned from Diagonal Road to the plaza in The consultants identified three alternatives in Old Town front of the Time Life building at Dulaney Street. The design for a new visitor center: 1) construct a new building near the and construction of the concourse is a requirement of the King Street Metro Station, 2) expand the existing Ramsay House Carlyle Special Use Permit and the responsibility of Carlyle building, or 3) build a small building on Market Square, which Development Corporation (CDC) (an affiliate of Norfolk already needs to be reconstructed in the next few years to cure Southern Corporation). structural problems. Each site has benefits, issues and challenges.

The City Council directed staff to discuss the study, its conclusions, and the potential sites for a new visitor center with boards and commissions, citizen and business groups, and interested members of the public. The review is underway and staff's recommendation is scheduled to be delivered to City Council in December or January. To obtain a copy of the visitor center study, call the City Manager's Office at 703.838.4300.

The opening of the concourse was originally scheduled to )<, coincide with the first occupancy of PTO in December, and the Special Use Permit specified a completion date of Dec. 31 for the Is the official publication of the City of Alexandria concourse. However, the concourse is now expected to open and is published quarterly by the City Manager's July 1, 2004. Office. For more information, call 703.838.4300. Before the concourse is built, CDC will provide shuttle service between the King Street Metro Station and the PTO site City Manager: Philip Sunderland every five minutes during the peak periods and provide physical Public Information Officer: Barbara Gordon channeling devices (such as a fence or barrier) to keep pedestrians from crossing Duke Street in the middle of the block Chief Writers: Barbara Hunter, George Pinckney, and between cars. In the event that the concourse is not Shannon Steffee, Jan Schrader, Mark Schwartz, opened by July 1, 2004, CDC will pay a penalty to the City in the amount of $5,000 per day after July 1. Karissa Scrogham and Robert Malgieri.

For additional information about the PTO project, visit Photos by staff and Nina Tisara. www.ptoinalexandria.com. For information about the concourse, contact Patton Harris Rust & Associates at Design and Layout: Justin Thompson 703.449.6700, ext. 1030. 2 November 2003 )<, $/(;$1'5,$

,1)2&86 Say Farewell to Isabel! Preparation for the City's most memorable visitor this year began days before her arrival and cleanup continued weeks after she left. Hurricane Isabel's arrival on Sept. 18 left thousands of households and businesses without power, knocked down trees, and closed City government offices.

More than 1,000 employees kept the City operating safely on Sept. 18 and 19 when government offices were closed, including 65 employees from various departments who worked in the Emergency Operations Center.

Due to heavy damage to businesses and homes, City crews picked up debris and flood- damaged materials around the clock throughout the City and even from zones not normally serviced by the City. Streets were also cleaned to prevent health and sanitation problems. Just hours after the hurricane passed, teams of City employees were in the flooded areas to assist businesses as they began cleanup and recovery. Enforcement of on-street, timed parking was lifted for two days. To make it easier for residents and businesses to make repairs, the City temporarily suspended the requirement that permits be obtained before emergency repairs could begin.

The Alexandria Health Department made 700 visits to food establishments, including about 500 restaurants, nursing homes, day care centers, convenience stores, and grocery stores which serve or sell food to provide information about food and water safety and flood recovery.

The U.S. Small Business Administration used the Lee Center on Jefferson Street as a Hurricane Isabel Recovery Assistance Center, issuing loan applications and providing information City Manager Phil Sunderland, U.S. Senator John about disaster loan programs. Warner, Mayor William Euille, and U.S. Senator George Allen discuss the hurricane aftermath. Bridge Construction Progresses Construction of the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the is making visible progress this fall. Replacing the aging bridge, which carries more than three times the traffic than it was designed for, is a multi-year project. Major milestones will be the opening of the first new bridge in 2006, and the opening of the second new bridge in 2008. Contracts for all three sections of the bridge superstructure have been awarded and scaffolding has been erected for the first of four sets of pier that will support the drawbridges over the navigation channel. The cast-in-place concrete arches now being built will support the side of the Beltway outer loop bascule bridge. Although this work is in the Potomac River, the contractors' offices and storage area are located on the waterfront in Jones Point Park. Near South Lee Street, in Jones Point Park, the Virginia approach contractor has established a precasting bed and is casting steam- cured concrete segments for the pier arches that will be erected on the concrete foundations from South Royal Street to the shoreline. Further inland, a contractor is building the Virginia abutment for the river bridge at South Royal Street and the retaining wall for the south shoulder of the Beltway from Royal Street to Washington Street. The two office buildings on South Washington Street at South Street have been demolished, three of the Hunting Terrace buildings are coming down, and work on the first segment of the deck where South Washington Street crosses the Beltway is underway. South Washington Street is operating as a three-lane roadway with a reversible center lane while the grade is adjusted and the urban deck construction proceeds. Eventually, Beltway traffic will be routed onto the new outer loop bridge so that the existing bridge can be demolished and replaced.

Between Route 1 and Telegraph Road, mounds of earth on either side of the Beltway are surcharges to consolidate the soft marine clay and silt to provide a stable base for widening the pavement. To the south, on the banks of , a causeway is under construction to carry the southernmost traffic lanes. Construction on the main Route 1 interchange should be evident early next year. Erection of sound barriers on both sides of South Patrick Street is one of the contractorsí first tasks. This will be the largest single contract ever awarded by VDOT.

Three years ago, to ease the impacts of major highway construction in a dynamic urban setting, the Alexandria City Council created the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Neighborhood Task Force. The Task Force has eight citizen members representing civic associations and activities that are sensitive to the bridge work, and is co-chaired by Mayor William Euille and Councilman Andrew Macdonald. The group meets monthly and has been instrumental in getting concessions such as noise mitigation, haul route restrictions and work hour limitations that reduce the inconvenience and discomfort that nearby residents must endure.

For more information about the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project check the web site www.wilsonbridge.com or call 703.329.0300. 3 )<, $/(;$1'5,$ Vol. 1, Issue No. 1

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City Launches New GIS Web Site Alexandria Wins Award for The City launched an addition to its web site which Police Tactical Computers provides up-to-date maps and geographic information about the City for use by the public. The Geographical Information The City of Alexandria won a 2003 Achievement Award Systems (GIS) web site offers maps with information on from the Virginia Municipal League for the Police Department's Alexandria's archaeological resources, the 2000 Census Tactical Computer System. Because police radio frequencies boundaries, historic districts, commercial development were continually tied up with administrative messages, a better opportunities, zoning, and a general map of the City. The site system was needed to exchange information. also includes maps of leaf and snow removal routes, bike trails, and the DASH bus service. In the future, the site will include With the Tactical interactive maps that will allow users to access Alexandria's Computer System, police entire parcel database through a digital map. cruisers are equipped with laptop computers which As a division of the Department of Planning and Zoning, enable police officers to GIS technology links geographic information with descriptive instantly learn the status of information. It is most easily described as putting multiple a license plate and driver, layers of data onto a single digital map. GIS is used to visualize, send incident reports explore, analyze, and edit geographical information. electronically, and send any type of information For more information, call the (text or photographs) to the Department of Planning and Zoning at entire fleet at once. 703.838.4666 or visit ci.alexandria.va.us/city/ planning_zoning/gis. JobLink is Moving! JobLink, the City of Alexandria's one-stop career center, will relocate from Eisenhower Avenue to 2914 Business Center Drive later this month.

The staff at JobLink will continue to provide job seekers with resume assistance, vocational assessments, career counseling, job search strategies and job leads. In addition, a resource center equipped with computers, Internet access, fax machines, photocopiers and job announcements will be available for self-directed job searches.

Employers can continue to expect referrals of qualified candidates for job vacancies and assistance with job fairs and recruitments.

Training opportunities will also be available to qualified persons who have been laid off or are having difficulty entering or re- entering the job market. Employment programs for Alexandria Works! participants, persons with disabilities, youth between the ages of 14 and 22, refugees and asylees, and older workers will continue to operate at the new site.

JobLink will be closed to the public Nov. 26, and will reopen for business Dec. 1, at 2914 Business Center Dr., south of the intersection of Duke and Roth Streets.

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352*5$06 6(59,&(6 Register Move is Planned for Health Department to The Alexandria Health Department will be moving to a new home in mid-2004. After 60 years at 517 N. St. Asaph St., the Health Department's main facility will move to 4480 King St. to provide better programs and services at a location more convenient for the population which is served the most. Following this month's state The new building will be home to more than 100 Health Department employees and elections, the next opportunities to vote will be in the presidential primaries will continue to provide services such as children's health and immunization, child and adult dental care, environmental health, family planning and well woman care, HIV/STD tentatively scheduled for February and counseling and testing, and TB control and screening. It will also continue to operate the June 2004, and the general election, Women, Infants and Children nutrition program and the Parent-Infant Education Program including the President of the United that teaches parents about child development. States, in November. In order to vote, citizens are required to register at least 29 For more information about the Health Department move, or about services offered days before an election. Citizens of the by the Health Department, call 703.838.4400, or visit www.alexhealth.com. United States can register to vote if they are legal residents, and will be 18 years old by the next general election.

To register, visit the local Division of Mt. Vernon Avenue Study Underway Motor Vehicles, the local library, or the Office of Voter Registration, which is A comprehensive planning effort for Mt. Vernon Avenue s mainstreet retail ' " located at 132 N. Royal St. The following district from Glebe Road to Luray Avenue is underway. The City s Planning " ' information must be provided in order to Department, in conjunction with a community work group comprised of residents, complete the registration process: full property owners and local businesses, is identifying alternative land use, design, parking legal name, current address, date and and marketing strategies to strengthen the Mt. Vernon Avenue businesses and create an place of birth, Social Security number, and active retail street. The goal is to create a vision for the future of Mt. Vernon Avenue previous place of registration. After which protects and enhances the adjoining residents and maintains the unique character completing the registration, the applicant of the street. receives a voter registration card. The card will list the location at which the A community meeting is tentatively planned for next month to discuss the vision for applicant can vote. Mt. Vernon Avenue and to evaluate the appropriate amount and scale of future development. Ideas and suggestions can be sent to [email protected]. Additional details can be found online Additional information is available at ci.alexandria.va.us/city/planning_zoning or call by visiting www.alexandriavoter.org or by 703.838.4666. calling 703.838.4050.

Sanitary Sewer Improvements Planned A Capital Improvement Program project has begun to correct the infiltration, inflow and backflow problems in the Four Mile Run and Commonwealth sanitary sewer service areas of Alexandria. Infiltration is groundwater leaking into the sanitary sewer pipe system; inflow is water from roof drains and basement sump pumps that are connected to the sanitary system. This project includes the evaluation, design of improvements and repairs to sanitary sewers and manholes.

The project is scheduled to begin in the Four Mile Run sanitary sewer area this fall and finish next summer. Work in the Commonwealth area is anticipated to begin in fall 2004 and finish in summer 2005. Sanitary sewers in public rights-of-way that have been identified as damaged will be relined and replaced. Repairs will be made to leaking manholes and manhole covers that now allow storm water run-off to leak into the sewers.

Separate sanitary sewers are sized to carry wastewater (and not storm water) from homes and businesses to the Alexandria Sanitation Authority treatment plant. Over the years, these sewers have lost their "tightness" as a result of leaky joints and cracks in pipes. This has allowed rainwater to enter the sewer pipes directly, as well as groundwater that is fed by rainfall. In intense storms and periods of high groundwater, this infiltration and inflow of rainwater can cause the capacity of the separate sanitary system to be exceeded. When this occurs, sewage can back up into the basements of homes. The project is intended to reduce the potential of such backflows.

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Plans Underway for New Calming Traffic In T.C. Williams High School Your Neighborhood T.C. Williams High School, the City's only high school, has To assist residents in keeping served thousands of students and community groups over the their neighborhoods safe, the past 38 years, and it shows. Ceilings drip, students swelter or Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program (NTCP) was created by freeze in windowless classrooms that lack multiple outlets for the City Council to incorporate engineering, education, and today's technology, and teachers scramble for what little enforcement to decrease speeding on neighborhood streets, planning space they can find for a student body of about 2,000. improve streets for pedestrians and bicyclists, and protect the quality of life in City neighborhoods. The NTCP provides In December 2002, the Alexandria City School Board residents with the opportunity to voice neighborhood traffic unanimously voted to approve rebuilding the new T.C. Williams concerns and to participate in the selection of strategies to High School on the site on which the high school currently sits promote safe and pleasant conditions for all street users. at 3330 King St. Under the current schedule, the new building should open in the fall of 2007. The new building will feature Examples of traffic calming measures include "speed tables" smaller learning areas and an environmentally sustainable on lower Commonwealth Avenue, "speed cushions" on Holmes design for greater energy efficiency and lower operating costs. Run Parkway, and "bulb-outs" on Mount Vernon Avenue. Extensive planning by an educational program committee will Speed tables and cushions are raised asphalt mounds that have result in more effective instructional programs for T.C. students been effective at lowering speeding by 5 to 7 mph. Bulb-outs are and will ensure that every student will graduate with a diploma extensions of the sidewalk into the street at intersections that and/or certificate that signifies solid preparation for create safer street crossing locations for pedestrians. There are a postsecondary education or a career. variety of additional measures available for communities to use in the "Traffic Calming Toolbox." Pictures and descriptions of When the School Board looked at the costs of renovating these measures can be found at the Cityís Traffic Calming web versus rebuilding this facility, it determined that the costs for site at www.alextrafficcalming.org. the two options were comparable. By choosing to rebuild the facility instead of making piecemeal renovations, the School Residents requesting traffic calming on their streets should Board opted to provide a completely new and state-of-the-art visit the NTCP web site or call the Traffic Calming Coordinator, learning environment that will be filled with high tech Paul DeMaio, at 703.519.3400, ext. 217, to obtain a copy of the classrooms, inviting spaces for reading and working, as well as a NTCP Guide. The guide describes the process for acquiring cafeteria that will be able to accommodate all students on any traffic calming in your neighborhood and provides an given day. application for the community to begin the process.

Minnie Howard School Alexandrians Can Adopt-a-Block Alexandrians have an opportunity to preserve the City's Renovation Scheduled natural resources and help maintain clean streets and In early 2004, construction crews will break ground on the environmentally healthy neighborhoods by participating in the renovations to update the aging Minnie Howard School Adopt-a-Block program. building located at 3801 West Braddock Road. The building, which opened in 1954, will undergo significant renovations to Participants in the Adopt-a-Block program are usually add classrooms and expand the media center, cafeteria, and established businesses, government entities, community or gymnasium. public organizations. Participants' responsibilities include:

Minnie Howard has served the City as an elementary * Adopt five blocks or more of a roadway for two years school, a middle school, a central office administration building, * Collect litter at least four times per year and a ninth grade school for the last 10 years. The school has * Follow all safety procedures been nationally recognized as a top education model for its * Sign an Adopt-A-Block Agreement which describes the ninth grade program. eligibility criteria and the responsibilities of participants

The work is scheduled to be The Solid Waste Division of the Alexandria Department of completed by the opening of Transportation and Environmental Services developed the school in September 2005. Adopt-A-Block Agreement. For more information call 703.838.4488. Festival of the Arts Hundreds of residents and visitors enjoyed the first Alexandria Festival of the Arts in September along King Street in Old Town. 6 November 2003 )<, $/(;$1'5,$

)81)250$7,21 The Annual Tree Alexandria Celebrates Historic Holiday Season! Lighting Ceremony Hear the bagpipes of hundreds of Scottish clansmen, The City of Alexandria kicks check out the Scotties and Westies dressed in their off the holiday season with a holiday finery. Later, gather with your friends along the free Tree Lighting Ceremony on waterfront to see the bright lights of two miles of festively Nov. 28, 7 pm, Market Square, decorated pleasure boats cruising along the Potomac River. 301 King St. Don't miss It's the holiday season in historic Alexandria, and it greetings from Santa and the couldn't be more fun than on the Fun Side of the Potomac! Mayor and musical entertainment. For information This is the perfect time to invite family and friends to call 703.883.4686. experience Alexandria's historic seaport. Seasonal highlights include the Campagna Center's 33rd Annual Scottish Walk weekend on Dec. 6 beginning with the Scottish Walk parade at 10:30 am in historic Calls from the Clauses Old Town, a tour of historic homes, and the Holiday Parade of Boats at 5:30 pm. Stay in Old Young people may request Town for dinner and visit the gala art sale at the Art League's Duke Street Annex. Candlelight a call from Mr. or Mrs. Santa Tours of several historic sites are offered the following weekend, as well as concerts throughout Claus beginning in December. the season. End the year on a high note by attending First Night Alexandria on Dec. 31. Find Every attempt is made to contact more information at www.firstnightalexandria.com. everyone requesting a call. Address a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Take advantage of the City of Claus with the childís name, sex, Alexandria s early holiday gift: FREE parking Sponsorships Available for ' age and telephone number. at all City-owned parking meters, garages and Send to: Mr. and Mrs. Claus, c/o parking lots after 5 pm weekdays and all day Ornamental Trash Cans ARPCA/Events, 1108 Jefferson Saturday and Sunday through Dec. 31. Looking for a way to spruce up your St., Alexandria, VA 22314. Hotels, shops and restaurants are also neighborhood? Several areas of the City have offering holiday discounts. For more added functional yet attractive trash cans paid Requests are not accepted information check the Alexandria Convention for by private funds. Any person, family, over the phone and must be and Visitor Association web site business, non-profit organization, or agency received by Nov. 21. The www.funside.com, visit the Ramsay House may submit a request to the City's Solid program is sponsored by the Visitor Center, 221 King St., or call Waste Division to sponsor the purchase of an Alexandria Department of 703.838.5005. ornamental can which can include a Recreation, Parks and Cultural promotional sign displayed on the can. More Activities and supported by the Ground Broken for than one business or organization can join Alexandria Jaycees and the together to sponsor a can, but the listing on Hispanic Ford Nature Center the signs is limited by the standard 12x6" size Jaycees. Ground was broken on Oct. 18 for the of the sign. renovation and expansion of the Jerome Please indicate if a TTY call "Buddie" Ford Nature Center, 5650 Sanger The cost of the sponsored can will be or a call in Spanish is needed. Ave. Completion of the project is expected in based on the City's bid price for the can which Note: No long distance calls 2004. is currently about $800 per unit. For details available. Calls will be made from call the Waste Division Chief at 703.838.4488. 6 - 8 pm on weekdays. The Center opened in 1979 as the Ramsay Nature Center near Dora Kelley Nature Park, and adjoins Ramsay Elementary School. It was recently renamed in honor of Ford's 47 years of distinguished service with the City. Since Alexandria Opens First Skatepark its opening, the Center's usage has outgrown the building. The expansion and renovation The City's first skatepark opened in August in Luckett Stadium Park, 3300 Duke will create a much larger facility with a gallery St. The park, operated by the Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural area, a meeting room, joint use of a science Activities, provides a safe, confined area for youth to skate. The first phase of room with Ramsay Elementary School, a equipment was installed this fall and is designed for beginner greenhouse, and office, storage and work and intermediate skateboard and in-line enthusiasts. space. Nature Center staff offices have Equipment for intermediate and advanced participants will relocated to the Lee Center, 1108 Jefferson St., be included in the second phase in the next few months. until construction is completed. The skatepark is open seven days a week beginning The Center offers year-round programs at 9 am. The hours are seasonal, so the park will close at and exhibits on natural history and operates 5 pm through March. Skaters must be 6 years old to use under the Department of Recreation, Parks and the skatepark, and those under age 10 must be accompanied Cultural Activities. For more information call by an adult. Park participants are advised to wear helmets, elbow 703.838.4829 or check the web site, pads and knee pads at all times. Park entrance is free. For more ci.alexandria.va.us/recreation. information, call 703.838.4343. 7 )<, $/(;$1'5,$ Vol. 1, Issue No. 1 &$/(1'$52)(9(176 Nov. 11 Nov. 28 Dec. 25 - 26 City Council Meeting City's Tree Lighting Ceremony City Offices Closed for 703.838.4550 at Market Square Christmas Holiday 703.883.4686 Nov. 13 - 16 Dec. 31 Barrett Library Dec. 5 Fall Book Sale Holiday Concert 703.838.4555 (Barbershop Chorus) Lee Center Dec. 7 Nov. 15 703.838.4686 Toys for Tots City Council Public Hearing Lee Center 703.838.4550 Dec. 6 703.883.4686 (Family-Oriented Scottish Walk Parade New Year Celebration) Nov. 15 703.549.0111 Dec. 8 703.838.4200, ext. 210 America Recycles Day and City Council Meeting Rethink Recycling Dec. 6 703.838.4550 Jan. 1 Art Contest Alexandria Archaeology New Year's Day 703.838.6400 Museum's Ornament Dec. 12 - 13 City Offices Decorating Workshop Office of Historic Alexandriaís Closed Nov. 15 703.838.4399 Candlelight Tours Second Half of 703.838.4242 Real Estate Tax is Due Dec. 6 Holiday Parade of Boats Dec. 13 Jan. 13 Nov. 16 City waterfront Alexandria Black History City Council Meeting Scholarship Fund of Alexandria/ 703.838.5005 Resource Centerís 703.838.4550 Comcast Telethon Kwanzaa Gift Making Class 703.671.5935 703.838.4356 Jan. 15 M.L. King, Jr. Community Nov. 22 - mid-Dec. Dec. 13 Memorial Service at Emmanuel Outdoor Holiday Concerts Fort Ward Church on the Hill 703.883.4686 Christmas in Camp 703.838.4800 703.838-4554 Nov. 25 Jan. 24 City Council Meeting Dec. 16 City Council 703.838.4550 City Council Public Hearing Public Dec. 6 703.838.4550 Hearing Nov. 27 - 28 Alexandria Library Book Fair 703.838.4550 City Offices Barnes & Nobles, Potomac Yard Closed for 703.519.3498 Thanksgiving Holiday

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